Needle for sewing bags



(No Model.)

S. M. NEELY.

NEEDLE EOE SEWING BAGS, Ew. l

No. 398,531. Patented Peb. 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL All. NEELY, OF SMITIIS TUR).I OIIT, SOUTH CAROLINA.

NEEDLE FOR SEWING BAGS, 86C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,531, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed October 20, 1888. Serial No. 288,702. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Smiths Turn Out, in the county of York and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Needles for Sewing Up the Months of Bags and for other Purposes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to needles designed to be used by hand for doing heavy or coarse work, and,although applicable to other purposes, more particularly adapted to sewing up or closing the mouths of grain and other bags, Lacking or sewing up mattresses, and doing other like heavy work.

In carrying out my invention I use an eyepoint needle which is adapted to carry its own ball of thread, said needle being either of the longitudinally-grooved description or not, as desired; and the invention consists in ertain novel constructions and combinations ot parts, substantially as hereinafter del needle with its thread easier of operation and scribed, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawin 'forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l represent-s a view in perspective ot a needle embodying my invention, and in section being taken in a plane at right angles to Fig. 9, through the can or case which cari ries the ball ot' thread. Fig. at is a longitudinal exterior view oli' the forward portion ot' the needle havingl a sol't; metallic cyeletiitted in its eye, and Fig. a ltmgitudinal section ot the same in a plane at right angles to Fig. i.

A indicates the main portion or body ofthe needle, which is made straight and is provided with an eye, b, near its point, and which has its rear end or shank portion, c, bent in the form of a loop to wrap around a can or case, B, to which it is firmly secured, either by riveting, soldering, or otherwise, and whereby Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. NEELY, of

` of thread, C, is virtually made an integral the can or case, which serves to carry a ball part of the needle and forms a head thereto.

The can or case B, although here repre sented as round in transverse section, may be of any other desired shape, the mere form of it not being material. It is fitted at its one end 01 side with a slip or other lid, d., for the convenience of insert-ing or removing the ball of thread C, which may be loosely carried in the can or case, and for the convenience of passing the thread out through a central hole, e, in the body of the can or case at the base end of the body A of the needle and from thence to and through the eye of the needle.

In some cases it is preferred to longitudinally groove the body A of the needle, as at f, from or beyond its eye to or near its base end, and preferably on the under side, for the thread in its way to the eye ot the needle to lie in the needle, and thereby to render the to prevent breaking of the thread from friction or catchin g ol' itin the fabric bcingsewed. It is also desirable in some cases to provide the body A of the needle, near its base or inner end, with a guide-eye, g, for the thread, and which will not only serve to guide the thread, but will also opera-te to some extent as a tension device thereon. Furthermore, l propose in some cases to tit within the eye b of the needle, that is usually made ot' steel, a brass or other sotteinetal independent eyeletbushing, b', to prevent the thread being out by the eye.

In the use ot the needle as applied to sewing up the mouth ot' a bag, for instance, the saine, which should have its body A suited to the line of stitching it is to perform, is throac'led, as shown in Figs. l and with the thread projected through the eye 'of the needle. The sewing in such cases is then done by passing the threaded Vneedle through both thicknesses of the material, commencing at the near edge ot' the mout-h of the bag7 and passing the same from one side to another and back and forth to and beyond its farther edge. rlhe portion of the thread or twine which is beyond the eye of the needle is then IOO ILV

grasped or held and the needle drawn back so that it passes by its eye over the thread which remains in and through the bag. In this way the twothieknesses of the bag are stitched together, and the needle still remains threaded and a new supply of thread is furnished thereto by or from the ball of thread as the needle is Withdrawn from the material seWed by it. Then, without severing the thread or twine, the saine portions of the bag` or fabric may be double-stitched by being` again sewed by the needle, as before described, after which the thread or twine is eut, when the two ends of it may be tied together or otherwise fastened, as desired.

By the transverse arrangement of the thread-holding can or ease relatively to the body of the needleand the permanent attaehment of the looped shank portion of the nee- I dle to or around said can or ease the needle l is rinly secured to its place and the ean or ease strengthened by it.

Having thus fully described my invention, I Claim as new and desire to seen re by Letters Patent- The body of the needle provided with an eye near its point and having its rear end portion constructed to form a loop, in combination with a transversely-arranged and opening and closing' thread-holding can having the looped rear end portion of the needle coiled around and seouredto it, .said can being provided with an eye near the base end of the body of the needle for passage of the thread to the needle7 essentially as described.

SAMUEL M. NEELY.

lllitnesses:

W. A. SANDERS, JNO. B. MCFADDEN. 

